History of Britain, A: At the Edge of the World? 3500 B.C. - 1603 A.D. (A History of Britain #1) by Simon Schama; 2000. Hardcover.
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Publisher: Talk Miramax Books by Hyperion
Binding: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 416
'History clings tight but it also kicks loose', writes Simon Schama at the outset of this, the first book in his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. 'Disruption as much as persistence is its proper subject. So although the great theme of British history seen from the twentieth century is endurance, its counter-point, seen from the twenty-first, must be alteration.'
Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's personal and grippingly written history, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties. At the heart of his history lie questions of compelling importance for Britain's future as well as its past: What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth or home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many, one culture or several? Has British history unfolded 'at the edge of the world' or right at the heart of it?
Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Schama's personal and grippingly written history, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our loyalties. At the heart of his history lie questions of compelling importance for Britain's future as well as its past: What makes or breaks a nation? To whom do we give our allegiance and why? And where do the boundaries of our community lie - in our hearth or home, our village or city, tribe or faith? What is Britain - one country or many, one culture or several? Has British history unfolded 'at the edge of the world' or right at the heart of it?
The great and the wicked are here - Becket and Thomas Cromwell, Robert the Bruce and Anne Boleyn - but so are countless more ordinary lives: an Irish monk waiting for the plague to kill him in his cell at Kilkenny; a small boy running through the streets of London to catch a glimpse of Elizabeth I.
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History of Britain, A: At the Edge of the World? 3500 B.C. - 1603 A.D. (A History of Britain #1) by Simon Schama; 2000. Hardcover.
